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Mark Hertsgaard


Born
December 29, 1956


Mark Hertsgaard is an American journalist and the co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now. He is the environment correspondent for The Nation, and the author of seven non-fiction books, including Earth Odyssey (1998) and Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (2011).
He has covered climate change, politics, economics, the press, and music since 1989. His best-known work as an author is On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988), which described the way the Reagan White House "deployed raw power and conventional wisdom to intimidate Washington's television newsrooms." He has also written for magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Scientific American,Time, Harper's, and Le Monde
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A Day in the Life: The Musi...

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Hot: Living Through the Nex...

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The Eagle's Shadow: Why Ame...

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On Bended Knee: The Press a...

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Nuclear Inc: The Men and Money

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L'art Des Beatles: Abbey Road

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“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma, when it [is] rich countries’ consumption patterns that [are] responsible for the vast majority of the world’s resource depletion and ecosystem destruction?”
Mark Hertsgaard

“The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.”
Mark Hertsgaard, Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden

“Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.”
Mark Hertsgaard, Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
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